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Introduction:Tescopeofappliedpsycholinguistics
theclassroomcontext).Forfuturetranslatorsand(conference)interpreters,the
knowledgeoflanguageprocessingwillmakethemmoreaware,forexample,of
howtheycanusetheirmemoriesmoreefectivelyinsimultaneousorconsecu-
tiveinterpretingorhowtodevelopcomprehensionofaspokentext.
Tevolumeshouldbynomeansberegardedasacourse-bookin(applied)
psycholinguisticsbecauseofitslimitedscopeintopicchoice,butratheras
supplementaryreading,presentingtheindividualresearchinterestsofeachcon-
tributingAuthor.Eachchapterlooksatadiferentaspectoflanguageprocess-
ing—eitherverbal(languageperceptionandproduction)ornonverbal(group
forming,afectivity).Testudiespresentedapplytodiferentcontextsoflanguage
use—fromnaturaltoformalinstructionofaFLclassroom.Teydemonstrate
awholevarietyofresearchmethods:fromquantitativeones,whereanalysesare
basedonstatisticalmeasurestoeyetracking,toqualitativecontentanalysisof
narrativetexts.
Tevolumeopenswiththearticle“Acquiringmeaningofforeignvocabu-
lary”byJanuszArabski(thecurrentVice-PresidentofISAPL)onforeignlan-
guagevocabularylearning,anareaofstudywhichfeaturesquiteprominently
inpsycholinguisticresearch.TearticlebyAndrzejPorzuczekandArkadiusz
Rojczyk,isentitled“Tephonologicalfunctionsofsegmentalandsubsegmental
duration”andlooksatphonologicalprocessingandproductioninEFLlearn-
ers’performance.Tetwopaperstofollow,byJoannaNykielon“Language
productionandonlinelanguagecomprehensionbehavior”andbyAgnieszka
SolskaandArkadiuszRojczykon“Appreciationofpurposiveambiguity:Te
relevanceofpunsincitypromotionalslogans”bothdiscuss,theoreticallyand
empirically,comprehensionprocessesindiferentcontextsandusingdiferent
methods.TefollowingarticlebyM.KrzysztofSzymczak,on“Verbaldomi-
nancevs.temperamentalandanxietyvariablesofFLUniversityStudents,”
examinesverbalinteractionpatternsinaFLclass,linkingthemtoindividual
learnerdiferences.Inthesubsequentarticle,“CWearehumanbeings,not
robots’:Onthepsychologyofafectineducation,”Iintroducetheconstructof
emotionalandafectiveprocessinginthebrainandlookatperceptionsofEFL
pre-serviceteachersoftheirownafectivity.DagmaraGałajda,inherpaper
entited“Groupcohesiveness,”looksatgroupdynamicsasapsychologically-
-groundeddimensionofgroupinteraction,emphasizingtheroleofateacher
indevelopingit.Teclosingarticle,“Psycholinguisticaspectsofacquisition
ofChinesecharacterbybeginnerstudents”byKatarzynaBańka,goesbeyond
studyingsecondlanguageacquisitionprocessesbyintroducingamultilingual
contextandoneoftheareasofdifculty(thewritingsystem)inlearningChi-
neseasanL3.
WebelievethatthepapersinthisvolumewillbeofinterestandusetoB.A.,
M.A.,andPh.D.students,preparingtheirownempiricalprojectsinsecond
languageacquisition,whichconstitutesanimportantsub-domainin(applied)
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